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		karlding 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggreg... Do you handle books with no ISBN? I’ve recently acquired some photo books that don’t appear to have any ISBN but are listed on WorldCat and have OCLC Numbers and are catalogued in the Japanese National Diet Library. Not sure if they actually don't have ISBNs or if I just haven't been able to find them, but from what I got from some research it's quite common for self-published books.

jamesponddotco 5 days ago [–]

No, right now you need an ISBN to search for a book. At a later date I'll implement search by title or author, which should help with this use case.

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